I've designed pitch deck for brands and it's a different kind of design on its own, no too much wildness, no excessive "things" if any at all, just straight to the point
@egbokavictory_ It automatically saves as audio to your phone...
You just have to go check your WhatsApp media and you'll see all the vns you've received.
Healthcare was not designed for clinicians to build second careers in parallel.
So when people ask what it looks like to combine medicine with a digital career, the honest answer is, it doesn’t fit neatly into any system.
For context, I run a social media agency and I’m also preparing for my final fellowship exams.
Truth is, there is no clean separation between the two worlds. No clear boundary where one ends and the other begins. What exists instead is overlap, constant, unavoidable, and often messy. The work doesn’t wait for ideal timing. It expands into whatever space you manage to create for it.
Mornings usually begin before hospital duties.
That is when core agency work happens: reviewing client content, responding to messages, planning campaigns, and occasionally writing content myself.
It is quiet work, often done early, before the clinical demands of the day take over. From the outside it can look structured. In reality, it is just an attempt to stay ahead of a schedule that is already full.
Once I’m in the hospital, everything shifts.
Anaesthesia does not allow divided attention. You are fully present in theatre: monitoring patients, anticipating changes, responding in real time. In those hours, the digital side of life disappears completely. It has to. Clinical work demands full cognitive presence, especially in high-stakes moments.
The challenge is what happens after.
Because the digital world does not pause. Messages accumulate, deadlines move closer, ideas that surfaced in fragments during the day start demanding attention in the evening.
That is also when studying for fellowship exams happens, often late, often tired, often without ideal conditions. Reading, revising, trying to stay consistent even when the day has already taken most of your energy.
Weekends are not rest in the traditional sense.
They become recovery windows for everything that spilled over during the week: work, study, planning, backlog. Sometimes it is actual productivity. Sometimes it is simply trying to reorganise mental clutter so the next week is manageable.
What people often call multitasking is not really multitasking. It is context switching between two demanding identities, one clinical, one digital. Both real. Both requiring competence. Both competing for the same limited attention and energy.
It is not balanced.
It is not always efficient.
It is not glamorous.
But it is intentional.
Because the reality is that many clinicians today are no longer confined to a single professional identity. The system is slowly shifting, and more people are building across lanes rather than choosing just one.
And once you see that clearly, you stop expecting it to feel balanced. You just start making deliberate choices about what gets your time.
That is the reality.
@mohagirei Well in my centre HOs pay their dues, that of the association, extending to the national.
But you can understand their frustration, having to beg to be paid every month is enough to make most HOs think our cases are not been fought for.
There's one piece missing in this story. Chude did not find me on Twitter. He found me through Joel.
Joel was one of those people I was doing the 5-10K logos and flyers for.
He was one of those students you wondered if they were really your fellow students. Representing FUTA in international tech competitions, they walked into the offices of senior university officers without knocking.
They were in SF today for a Microsoft competition, Newcastle tomorrow for something else, while the rest of us packed ourselves in hot lecture theatres that were anything but theatres.
I wanted to be like them. But I had neither the interest nor the skill for the 'coding' they all seemed to do. But if I couldn't be them, was there a way I could do something with or for them?
So I printed my crooked logo attempts for my classmates on an A4 paper and showed one of them. Soon I was making logos for these things they called startups.
That's how I met @JoelOgunsola ✨
He was, and he is one of the most brilliant people I know. He always had new products to launch, new initiatives to introduce, new programs to host... he came back and back. A logo today, a flyer tomorrow. I didn't understand many of them but I was just happy to call out my GTBank details and open my CorelDraw.
One day Joel came with yet another flyer. It was not his initiative this time. His mentor in Lagos had an urgent need. They needed to announce a program but the designer wasn't available in that moment. Joel offered to help get it done.
He told me about his mentor and his urgent need. For me, it didn't matter that he was doing it pro-bono for this big person. That was his promise, not mine 😅 I needed my own 5K. He paid.
(For many years, I thought the 'Jideonwo' was a Yoruba name... as per Jide something something).
The flyer needed to be ready in 24 hours. I delivered. Then he sent it to his mentor. The next day, he showed me the email response from Chude: "Thank you very much. Who is this guy by the way?"
Joel to me: "If he's asking that question, he probably wants to work with you. Let's keep our fingers crossed."
I received a phone call a few weeks later: "My name is Bukonla Adebakin from The Future Project... Chude asked me to reach out. We're preparing for this year's edition of The Future Awards and...
yeah.
People went to collect rice that politicians are sharing, that's how there was a stampede, gate fell on some and others were still matching the gate.... Now they've filled up the A&E with work that could have been avoided.
Because of APC, we dey here dey do ABC🌚
It's Not everyone that's interested in this rat race that never ends per day
Heard of a chief last week, that was due for fit part be 2 exams about 15 years ago and just refused to go write.
He is living his life.